Connecticut western news., 1887-11-02
OLEOMARGARINE.

Apples are selling at Cornwall Bridge at 70 cents per bushel, delivered at the station. ..-.
 A Lebanon man killed 100 rats in his corn crib recently, with wheel spoke, time 30 minus,
 Mrs Sarah A. Troy of Fair Haven is the first young lady in the state to re- ceive druggists diploma.
 Will Hayes of West Haven has gather ed 600 barrels of apples in Harwinton and sold them to go to England.
 The desired capital of s 50, 900 for the new hosiery company in this village has been subsribed.-[ Winsted Press.
 The editor of the Thomaston Express had green psas for dinner on the IS inst, raised in the gardens of townsman, c. R. Smith.
 The American humane society reports that during the year it has caused the arrest of ten thousand persons for cruel ty to animals and more than ten thous- and for cruelty to children Winsted Press.
 The will of ex-Gov. Holley of Lake vile provides for S2,OOO scholarship at Yale college. This is the only public bequest. The family residence, one of the finest in Litchfield county, is left to the window The bulk of the large es- tate will go to the daughter, Mrs Wm, B. Rudd of Lakeville, and the grand children.-[Exchange.
 After years suffering from Bright s disease Mrs Grace Persons Joyner died at the residence of her father on Meadow street at five o'clock yesterday morning. Months since Mrs Joyner was thought to be nearer deaths door than she was but had improved, so that she was able to ride out. During the past week. however, she failed more rapidly than before. and at last dropped away in a peaceful slumber. Mrs Joyner leaves one child, Il bright lad of about H.
 Winsted Herald
 Nearly half million of immigrants have arrived since the year begun. more come now from Germany than from any other country More came from Eng and Wales than from Ireland. As compared with last year, the total i'm migratian for the first nine months ot 1887 shows an increase of about forty per cent The Russian immigration is about stationary, the Polish, Bohemian and Hungarian arrivals are falling off ir numbers, while Italy sends this year al most twice as many sunburned sons as came to the land of freedom and peanuts in the first nine months of 1886. -TNeN York Sun
 Ex-Postmaster General James re gently wrote to a friend in Mexico an6 put fve-cent stamp on the letter. The friend wrote back that the postage was only two cents, and asked General Jam es if he was forgetting his long experien ce in the post office department The ex postmaster general used to be able tt tell without hesitation what the postogt to Siam or Corea or other remote heath en lands was, and when his intimate friends meet him now they say, Gen eral, what's the postage to Mexico?' | -l New York Sun
 The Springfield. Mass. Good House keeping will publish their Holiday mum Der Thanksgiving week. It will be th finest number Good Housekeeping ha ever published, Good Housekeeping has now between six and seven hundred different contributors. It has a larg and very extensive circulation and i considered one of the most popular ant
 practical publications in the county; the
 publishers are making very ibera
 offer to new subscribers for 1885. T,
 such they offer the balance of this yea free of charge, if yearly subscriptions o S2.5O are sent in now. If you are no r familiar with it you should send for 5 sample copy. All newsdealers keep it The Postmaster at Beekman, N. Y. f is about to be married He has an assis
 ant who is lady. The lady assistan wrote to the Post Office Departman requesting that permission be erante, . her to close the office on the da 7 of the Postmaster's wedding in orde
 that she might attend the ceremony
 The Department has replied that tn ]. office may be closed for three hours thin r ing that sufficient length of time t r allow the assistant to attend the weddin { Since the permission was granted tn
 Department has been wondering whetl CT the assistant may not require nor 6 time than three hours in which to ge 8 ready for the part she is to take in tn
 ceremony, but no luther interruptio of the postal business has been sanction ed.-[ [Poughkeepsie Eagle.
 . MT l.. B. Baker, for several year foreman in the composing. room of tn t Bridgeport Farmer, died at his res
 dence in New Milford on Monday ever
 ing, Oct. "A, aged 39 years. For som
 time after taking up his residence i
 New Milford, deceased was connecte D with the Gazette; afterwards he e
 tablished the New Milford Item an continued its publication until consuml T. ton compelled him to cease work H e was generally respected whereve l, known. His funeral was largely attel if ded at his late residence on Wednesda at p. m ., Rev T. J. Lee conductin ; the services. He leaves wife and